Radio War Nerd EP #461 — World of Wars: Kursk-2024, Israeli Assassinations, Nigeria's Polish pro-Russian FlagBots
Recorded: August 8, 2024
Surveying the latest war news: Ukraine's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk oblast; waiting for Axis of Resistance response to Israel's assassinations of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran & Hezbollah top commander Fuad Shukr; white riots in the UK; Poles in Nigeria waving Russian (false?) flags...
Total time: 1:17:21
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Comments (35)
One thing I don't understand is why White Riot and not Anarchy in the U.K.
Mark, you implied that the Signal messages between Vance and Johnson published by the Washington Post were the result of a leak in the Signal application. I doubt that is true. Most likely the Signal messages were simply leaked by Johnson or someone who had access to his device. I appreciate you pointing out that Signal received early funding from CIA linked OTF. But as far a I know Signal remains the only chat application independently reviewed by cryptographers for security. A money trail doesn't prove an application is insecure and insinuating it does is sloppy journalism.
The point has never been that Signal and Tor have backdoors for the IC, but they don’t have to because they know the precise architecture of those programs and very likely do know or are alerted to zero days before anyone else
Get Amoebale on
Something very funny about an ugly ginger man who shat on the floor extolling the innate virtues of the white race
Just a random impression/question from someone living in the US who only has the internet for information: Is there any way the US can avoid getting involved in a wider war, potentially with Iran, in the middle east? I just ask because it seems like the less Iran/Hezbollah responds to Israeli attacks, for whatever reason, the more that emboldens Israel to escalate. Further, it seems like Israel needs to draw the US into a war in order to take out Hezbollah and the Iranian government, which seems like their wider strategic goal. Will domestic pressures prevent Iran/Hezbollah from responding even if Israel continues attacking them?
The U.S. is gambling on the same wager that it has bet and won on since Korea: no one wants to go to war, not with the U.S. or anyone. The last time we played this card and lost was in 1950. The next time will also be when China stops tolerating our bullshit.
Ten or twelve trillion in minerals in Ukraine? What is this southern fried dipshit on about? https://www.instagram.com/timjdillon/reel/C-iTgaOvRiD/?igsh=MXB5eWhyd3B4OXJsMA==
You've completely lost the plot.
“Charles Johnson shat on the floor” was a fun moment in mid-2010s twitter
In your discussion of JD Vance I see myself in him in that I too am not very smart. Also white with a beard.
I was in the ME when Soleimani was killed. It was a pretty chaotic scene. The military was caught off guard, then went 0-200 in 6 seconds. It was way more tense than it is, now. I think the military was a little burnt out by the orange guys you scratch my back, weird foreign policy. His iraq and Afghan drawdown strategy was like heres five bases, pick three to eliminate in a month. Might have been done alphabetically. Who knows? I'm still shocked everyone forgets the Qatar blockade, the Kurdistan retreat that enraged the socom folks, the awful, stupid deals that ended up rejuvenating the ranks of isis, etc., and Soleimani. Post Soleimani it was crazy. It really only defused after Iran accidentally shot down the civilian airliner and the rest of the world jumped in. Everyone seems to forget about that. But, i think the blockade and the Turkey/Qatari alliance, with Qatars semi okay relationship with Iran probably played a role, too. I still think, too, that Turkey leaked the khashoggi tapes because of the blockade. They airlifted food to qatar at the time. I also have the suspicion that the tape leaks stopped because trump offered a favor to Turkey and that ended up being the Kurdistan retreat. I always thought that because he kept saying he'd saved mbs's ass, but never clarified. Thanks for the show.
Thanks, all good and important reminders, so many “events” in the present tense it’s easy to forget some of these.
I think he was referring to the Dahiyeh doctrine.
Yes
Mark, I believe you're thinking of The Samson Option. "If we can't win, pull down the pillars, destroy the Middle East."
Unfair to Samson
To be fair, a lot of the British rioters were driven by the Police, at the direction of Labor, refusing to prosecute grooming gangs of immigrants (in return for them voting in blocks for Labor) that were targeting British girls. Google Rochdale.
okay how long ago was this again? do they need to do pogroms about it today?
Tornadoes need to hit Aspen during the conference
Then there were the Poles who sided with the Haitian rebels against the French - who were employing the Poles at the time.
They stuck around too! They were exempt from the purge of the Europeans and some of them settled down. There’s still families with Polish last names in some parts of Haiti. And I’ve heard but can’t confirm that the Black Madonna of Częstochowa kinda got adopted into some part of local Voudon practices.
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No commentary on the Israeli pro-rape mobs?
31:48--great concise summary of Vance's transactional relationships at law school, John. The whole Chua/Rubenfeld nexus there is very very gross
Brave of John to break the no-predictions doctrine to comment on something as fraught and imminent as Iran-Israel escalation
Happy new year! 🥳🥳🥳
“Let’s go to Kursk! Nothing bad has ever happened to invading forces there”
Samson Directive/Plan
Mark's thinking of the Dahiya doctrine I think
This seems like a propaganda move that has a dangerous risk of encirclement; at the least, a risk of losing your current best fighters and important equipment that you were desperate to have
They’re going to lose those forces anyway. At least this way they take some Russians with them instead of just getting shelled to shit in the mud.
Thanks to RWN crew for the ongoing shows and coverage. When you’re as credulous and clueless as me (self-deprogramming from generic Democrat voter is harder than you’d think especially with no advanced education) it helps enormously. Grazie bella gente
Buffalo tornado! Right down the street from me, woot!!
Go Bills
